CATHERINE MBUGUA

ad4i03@r.postjobfree.com 919-***-**** Raleigh, NC 27610

Summary

Nurse care manager with over 20 years of experience in providing patient-centered care and leading multidisciplinary teams. Skilled in developing and implementing individualized care plans, managing resources, and educating patients and families. Seeking to leverage my expertise and passion for improving health outcomes in a challenging and rewarding role. Caring, hardworking and service-oriented Registered Nurse with more than 20 years of experience. Well-versed in offering evidence-based, therapeutic care. Collaborative and motivational leader with expertise in training new nursing staff while providing top-notch service to patient populations. Driven Registered Nurse with 20 years of experience caring for patients within geriatric setting. Smoothly deliver comprehensive patient care and delegate tasks according to patient needs and personnel skillsets. Dedicated to providing top quality care within a multidisciplinary team environment.

Experience

Bayada Home Health Care NC

RN Home Health Care Manager

08/2023 - Current

Leading the coordination of multidisciplinary team to deliver a holistic, person centric care management program to a diverse health plan population with a variety of health and social needs.

Use the care management process to assess and develop.

Implement, monitor, and evaluate care plans designed to optimize the patient's health across the care continuum.

Conducting skilled observations and assessments of patients' health status and developing individualized care plans in collaboration with physicians and other health care providers

Completing Medication Reconciliations for patients and coordinating with their doctors to ensure appropriate treatments, and therapies as prescribed by physicians and monitoring their effects.

Providing wound care, pain management, and infection control as needed

Educating patients and their families on how to manage their health conditions, prevent complications, and promote wellness.

Coordinating and communicating with other members of the health care team to ensure continuity and quality of care.

Documentation using HCHB and Oasis requirement formats and reporting patient care progress and outcome according to agency policies and regulations.

Adhering to professional standards, ethical principles, and legal requirements of home health nursing practice.

Centene / Wellcare of NC

Care Manager

08/2019 - 08/2023

Conducting comprehensive assessments of patients' health status, needs, preferences, and goals

Developing, implementing, and evaluating care plans that are patient-centered, evidence-based, and cost-effective.

Providing education, counseling, and support to patients and families on disease management, prevention, and wellness

Coordinating and facilitating referrals, transitions, and follow-ups across the continuum of care

Advocating for patients' rights and interests and ensuring quality and safety of care

Collaborating and communicating with multidisciplinary teams and community resources to optimize patient outcomes and satisfaction.

Documenting and reporting patient progress, outcomes, and interventions.

Capital Nursing Health & Rehab Raleigh, NC

Unit Manager / Nurse / MDS Coordinator

08/2019

Hospital Bed Size – 109 beds

Unit Bed Size – 30 beds

Patient Ratio – 1:28

Charting – Acute charting via Point Click Care (PCC)

Types of Cases – Acute patients, patients receiving skill services such as rehabilitation, wound care, respiratory care, prescription administration of medication and treatments and evaluation of response to medication, provide general nursing care to patients, maintain required accurate documentation, Experience with blood draws and administering IV medications, maintaining IV lines and IV dressings, complete patient admission to the facility, discharge assessments patients from the facility, obtaining blood culture samples, tube feeding administration, Wound Vac application and care, and maintenance, pressure ulcer assessments and care, post care for orthopedics patients, pain management, patient teaching on medications, symptom monitoring, caring for patients after orthopedic surgeries, providing direct care to rehabilitation patents, hospice care, transitional end of life care, crisis interventions, etc.

Liberty HealthCare & Rehabilitation Services Wilmington, NC

MDS Nurse Consultant / MDS Coordinator

01/2015 - 08/2018

Managed 14 nursing facilities within North Carolina as a clinical nursing consultant.

Duties include Utilization of skilled Medicare services, managing the interdisciplinary team members (Social workers, dietary, Activity, MDS support nurse) at each facility, provide training for orientation and new CMS updates, reviewed and updated company policies, Provided teaching to nurses and CNAs on practical skills and accurate documentation, conducted mock surveys in facilities to ensure compliance with practical skills and procedures as required by the state and federal.

Oaks of Carolina Healthcare & Rehabilitation Services Raleigh, NC

Unit Manager / Staff Nurse / MDS Coordinator

12/2008 - 12/2014

Hospital Bed Size – 150 beds

Unit Bed Size – 28 beds

Patient Ratio – 1:28

Charting – Acute daily charting via American Health-Tech (AHT).

Types of Cases – Acute care patients, cardiac monitor, managing pressure ulcers Tracheostomy care, tube feeding patients, admission assessments for patients from the hospital, home, doctors office, discharge assessments and preparations for patients to the discharged to various destinations such as to other facilities, home, hospital, medication administration per MD prescription, hospice care, transitional end of life care, crisis interventions, etc.

Rex Rehabilitation Healthcare Raleigh, NC

Supervisor Staff Nurse

05/2002 - 11/2008

Hospital Bed Size – 130 beds

Unit Bed Size – 30 beds

Patient Ratio – 1:30

Charting – Acute charting

Duties – Medication administration

Types of Cases – Caring for patients undergoing physical, speech and occupational therapies, blood glucose monitoring, taking care of diabetic patients, cardiac monitoring, after surgery care, wound care, pressure ulcer care, tube feeding, administering blood, hospice care, transitional end of life care, crisis interventions, etc.

Education and Training

University of Maryland Baltimore, MD

BS in Nursing (BSN)

01/1997

Morgan State University Baltimore, MD

BS in Psychology

01/1992

Certifications

Current CPR / BLS

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